A couple people at this year’s Product Camp Melbourne suggested topics around getting into product management, getting hired into their first product management job and wanting to know more about the role. We combined them all into one session, got a few people to be on the panel (which morphed into a round table...
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Product Mgr or Product Owner, Service design thinking & #prodmgmt newbies
Another afternoon session included: Product Manager or Product Owner – Nick Coster Using Service Design Thinking to make Awesome Products – Lisa Overton Panel discussion on Getting into Product Management – facilitated by Liz Blink Product Manager or Product Owner This old nugget! It’s amazing how many times this has been a topic of...
Product Camp 2015 – Camp wrap-up
It’s hard to believe the 6th annual Product Camp Melbourne was 2 weeks ago! After months of organisation, the day happens in a flash & then a flurry of getting wrap-up posts together (THIS never happens as quickly as we hope!). Thanks all who attended! And thanks for your great feedback! Many of you...
JTBD, Customer feedback & (bad) business cases
Our 3 afternoon sessions included: Advanced JTBD (jobs to be done): Focus your Product Innovation Effort Using Customer Feedback as a source of Innovation STOP writing bad business cases! Advanced JTBD (jobs to be done): Focus your Product Innovation Effort Russell Kallman had 2 groups explore what they wanted to get out of coming...
Camp Wrap-up: Transformation is just scaled up product management
We started the day with a keynote from Megan Fisher from Sensis talking about her move from product management to corporate transformation. Megan wasn’t sure this role was for her when she was approached about it. She was product, not transformation! It’s only after she started getting into it that she realised transformation is...
Camp Wrap-up: Product Management Finance (& a Tardis)
Amanda Ralph, Head of Product at Kinetic Super, gave our 2nd keynote of the day – If only I’d had a tardis: Why you shouldn’t rely on time travel to manage your product financials Amanda said product managers need to be comfortable with finance and in her product roles, she has always owned the...
Narrative UX
Our last session of the day was from Georgina Laidlaw on Narrative UX. Considering the amount of votes this session had, along with conversations I had – not many of us attending were familiar with the concept (I certainly wasn’t). Learning something completely new was a fantastic way to wrap up the day! Georgina...
Sales, managing people and seeing the future with roadmaps
We had 3 morning sessions: Sold in 30 seconds – Shane Goldberg Bring your new roadmap to life – Chris Duncan Managing products is easy but managing people is hard – Craig Brown Sold in 30 seconds – Shane Goldberg In July, Shane spoke at Product Anonymous on tips for working better with Sales....
Themes for Product Camp Melbourne
Have a question you’d like to discuss with other product managers and product people? A topic you’d like to tell others about? If you’d like to present, lead a topic or roundtable discussion, or would love someone to talk about X (but *you* don’t want to talk about it… here is your chance to...
Product Camp 2015 – date announced!
Hi everyone! Mark Saturday August 22nd in your calendar. Block it out now. Tell everyone you’re busy and they shouldn’t even think of organising something for that day! Why? Product Camp Melbourne 2015 on Saturday August 22nd! More details to come, of course, but start thinking about the following: would you like to volunteer...